- Engineering & Technology
State-of-the-art facilities and equipment for the elemental characterization of metallic materials and components, raw materials, fluids and waste.
Equipment of reference
Main testing services
- Determination of majority, minority and/or trace components in different types of materials:
- Metallic alloys (cast iron, steel, aluminium, copper, nickel, tin, lead, titanium, etc…).
- Pure metals (tungsten, titanium, tellurium, selenium, bismuth, lead, etc…).
- Refractory materials.
- Ferroalloys and inoculants.
- Waste from incinerators, soil recovery processes, recovery of higher value materials…
- Immission characterization
- Analysis of particulate matter in ambient air (particle size and chemical characterization).
- Analysis of chimney filters.
- Physical-chemical analysis of industrial discharges, water and leachate
- Characterization of sand, slag and residues from fusion processes
- Chemical characterization of carbonaceous materials (coal, anthracite, graphite, recarburants...)
- Characterization of compounds by X-Ray Diffraction
- Studies of thermal expansion coefficients of metallic materials and critical temperatures of phase transformation
- Technical Cleanliness test
- Calorimetric determinations
- "In-situ" tests of chemical composition using portable equipment
- Positive Material Identification (PMI)
- Classification of materials
- Separation of materials
- Certification of material
- Electrical conductivity and resistivity
Aliendalde Etxetaldea, 6, 48200 Durango, Bizkaia
